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| author | Joey Hess <joey@gnu.kitenet.net> | 2009-10-04 16:28:14 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@gnu.kitenet.net> | 2009-10-04 16:28:14 -0400 |
| commit | a8af271e5aed1c4aef3f66cee0847d609aedc705 (patch) | |
| tree | fc4b843c49259f03df280df9895c6bd4081c9125 /doc/plugins | |
| parent | 7982c3c1773feef0d7f248ff3efe09dd2cd94ad8 (diff) | |
document effect of contentless dependencies on sidebar efficiency
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/plugins')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/plugins/sidebar.mdwn | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/plugins/sidebar.mdwn b/doc/plugins/sidebar.mdwn index 36982eff3..4e356d65a 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/sidebar.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/sidebar.mdwn @@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ will turn off the sidebar altogether. Warning: Any change to the sidebar will cause a rebuild of the whole wiki, since every page includes a copy that has to be updated. This can -especially be a problem if the sidebar includes [[inline]] or [[map]] -directives, since any changes to pages inlined or mapped onto the sidebar +especially be a problem if the sidebar includes an [[ikiwiki/directive/inline]] +directive, since any changes to pages inlined into the sidebar will change the sidebar and cause a full wiki rebuild. + +Instead, if you include a [[ikiwiki/directive/map]] directive on the sidebar, +and it does not use the `show` parameter, only adding or removing pages +included in the map will cause a full rebuild. Modifying pages will not. |